How Do You Like Your Coffee?

Burning Down · 07-17-2013, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

I'd like to ask what is the point in sugar? It dulls down the coffee taste which is rich and delicious. Are your taste buds that ruined by sugar that it's all it responds to?

It's just how I like it, personally. I can skip the sugar on some coffee roasts though but not always.

I guess it's like how I don't understand why some people slather their food in ketchup.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 07-17-2013, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

It's just how I like it, personally. I can skip the sugar on some coffee roasts though but not always.

I guess it's like how I don't understand why some people slather their food in ketchup.

Okay this. Kiwi's really abuse this and it says a lot about our cooking! It's fine to put tomato sauce on bbq's but not on everything. My bf told me off because I wanted to put sauce on a Russian dish he'd made for me. Next I get a lecture about how food shouldn't need sauces. Bless him.

djchameleon · 07-17-2013, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Okay this. Kiwi's really abuse this and it says a lot about our cooking! It's fine to put tomato sauce on bbq's but not on everything. My bf told me off because I wanted to put sauce on a Russian dish he'd made for me. Next I get a lecture about how food shouldn't need sauces. Bless him.

I was getting ready to agree with him until that second lecture. He's damn wrong about that.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 07-17-2013, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

I was getting ready to agree with him until that second lecture. He's damn wrong about that.

He thinks that he is so good at cooking Russian food that it doesn't need sauce with what spices, herbs and seasoning he adds to it.

Mojo · 07-18-2013, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

I'd like to ask what is the point in sugar? It dulls down the coffee taste which is rich and delicious. Are your taste buds that ruined by sugar that it's all it responds to?

I'd put sugar or sweetener in it because coffee isn't rich or delicious to me. It's bitter. It's a decent taste if I sweeten it.

Tea on the other hand. If you put sugar in tea then GTFO.

Burning Down · 07-18-2013, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Mojo

I'd put sugar or sweetener in it because coffee isn't rich or delicious to me. It's bitter. It's a decent taste if I sweeten it.

Tea on the other hand. If you put sugar in tea then GTFO.

Sugar in tea makes no sense.

Astronomer · 07-18-2013, 02:30 AM

Well I'm not American so none of those options...I guess they would be called "caffe americano" in Europe

...Cream?! And sugar? Really? Hello, heart-attack.

Astronomer · 07-18-2013, 03:34 AM

If you have good quality coffee beans, the taste isn't as bitter. I've had amazing coffees from beans that were so rich in flavour that I didn't feel the need for sugar

I only put sugar in sub-par coffees or instant coffee. I don't know what the hell this cream fascination is...

My coffee of choice is a long or short macchiato, I used to order lattes or cappuccinos but I've become a little intolerant to dairy

Astronomer · 07-19-2013, 11:01 PM

I know there is a tea appeciation thread somewhere around, but I can't find it, so I just wanted to share a delicious tea combo that I came up with recently - green tea with freeze-dried strawberry pieces.... So freakin' good.

Sequoioideae · 07-19-2013, 11:05 PM

As black as the relic of Thich Quang Duc, even iced.

View Poll Results: How do you like your coffee?
Black	17	51.52%
with Sugar	1	3.03%
with Sugar and Cream	8	24.24%
with Cream	2	6.06%
Other	5	15.15%
Voters: 33. You may not vote on this poll

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Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	Well I'm not American so none of those options...I guess they would be called "caffe americano" in Europe ...Cream?! And sugar? Really? Hello, heart-attack. __________________

07-18-2013, 03:34 AM	#8 (permalink)
Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	If you have good quality coffee beans, the taste isn't as bitter. I've had amazing coffees from beans that were so rich in flavour that I didn't feel the need for sugar I only put sugar in sub-par coffees or instant coffee. I don't know what the hell this cream fascination is... My coffee of choice is a long or short macchiato, I used to order lattes or cappuccinos but I've become a little intolerant to dairy __________________ Last edited by Astronomer; 07-18-2013 at 03:58 AM.

07-19-2013, 11:01 PM	#9 (permalink)
Astronomer we are stardust Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 2,894	I know there is a tea appeciation thread somewhere around, but I can't find it, so I just wanted to share a delicious tea combo that I came up with recently - green tea with freeze-dried strawberry pieces.... So freakin' good. __________________